On this episode of The Front Row Podcast, we’re kicking off the new year by sitting down with Adam Pelz, a name many of you already know, but one that’s worth properly introducing if you don’t. Adam is the Owner and President of Bespoke Cinemas, and he’s spent years designing, installing, and dialing in high performance home theaters. He’s ISF, THX, and ARCOS certified, an expert instructor with the Home Acoustics Alliance, and currently serves as Chairman of CEDIA Standards.

This episode tackles a topic that gets mentioned all the time but rarely explained in plain language: Spinorama data. Adam walks us through what these speaker measurement graphs actually are, how they’re created, and why they matter when you’re evaluating a speaker. We talk about how these measurements are taken in an anechoic chamber, capturing a speaker’s output from all directions, and what parts of the graph are actually useful versus what people tend to misread or overemphasize.

We spend a lot of time focusing on how to read these graphs in a practical way. Not to turn listeners into measurement experts, but to help them better understand what Spinorama data can and cannot tell you about how a speaker will behave in a real room. Adam does a great job of cutting through the noise and explaining what deserves your attention and what probably doesn’t. We also touch on CEDIA RP22 standards and he even gives us a glimpse at the upcoming RP1 standards and what they aim to address.

We would love to do a part two with Adam, especially to dig into topics like speaker sensitivity, and how measurements translate into real-world performance. If there are questions or topics you want us to cover next time, drop them in the comments and we’ll make sure they make it into the follow-up.

One quick heads-up before you hit play: toward the end of the episode, Ryan’s mic starts dropping out due to an internet issue that we didn’t catch until after the fact. We apologize for the hiccup.

We want to give a big thank you to our podcast sponsor, ⁠⁠Paradigm Electronics⁠⁠. At Paradigm, sound is not just heard, it’s felt. It’s audio that stirs emotion and is designed to move you.

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